JAPAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 8

JAPAN.

FRIEiNDSHIP AMERICA

SIBERIAN QUESTION. 1 Melbourne, April 25. ! TII3 following wireless message was today, received from Honolulu : — !

"New York, April, 22. — Viscount, Ishii, t^he* new Japanese Ambassador to the United States, who. is en route to Washington, m an interview, said: 'Japan is Highly pleased at the 'American people's attitude, as reported by me on my recui'n from, my recent visit to Washington. True friendship is proved only m . time of trial. That this friendship ex- ! ists between the United States . arid . Japan is to be abundantly proved." ! "Regarding the .situation Tat Vladivo- 1 stock, .Viscount Ishii;<added : : 'All the Allied Powers must t^ke steps so that none of the huge quantities of munitions . f vanished to Russia by America and .Japan, and now heaped at Vladivostock, 'falls into Gerinan^harids. Japan will not take hasty action. ~ Her position is clear. ; As soon as it has been ascertained that ' .danger to s the Allies exists m Eastern.. .Siberia, and tvKejn .all./she Allies agree, then Japan will not hesitate to take the ' necessary steps, either alone or -with J others, to stop it. Such adtion would bo protective, not aggressive? •' - "Viscount Ishii explained that iL was not feasible to 3end Japanese troops to France, owing to the difficulty of transportation and the food supply. German and Austrian prispnel-s had . been set free m Russia, but they could not aid Germany unless they %ere''armcd, which was impossible without connivance.' 1 j